Medford mail tribune., May 12, 1920, Page 1, Image 1

nn
The Weather
Maximum yesterday 72
Minimum today .40
Precipitation .07
Predictions
Fair. Light l heavy frost.
Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year.
MEDFORD, 0RE00X, "WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1920.
NO. 44
Mail
M
DFORD
1 '
0
HITCHCOCK
CALLS KNOX
MOVE FOLLY
Democratic Leader Ridici'les Fourth
Effort of Pennsylvania Senator to
Escape Responsibility for Defeat
ing Peace Treaty Congress Has
No Power to Make Peace Reso
lution Adopted by House Denounc
ed Effort to Evade Responsibility
. WASHINGTON1, May 12. Demo
cratic attack upon the republican
peace resolution was launched today
by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
administration spokesmuu who de
clared in addressing the senate that
the measure was futllo and inconsis
tent and Inimical to the treaty of
Versailles.
i"The mountain has labored and
brought forth a mouse," he said.
"Great expectations for an act of
congress that would force a peace set
tlement are to be disappointed. High
Hopes that- a resolution by congress
could be made to perform the func
tions of a peace treaty are abandoned.
Instead of a peace settlement to be
forced by a resolution of mandatory
requirements as the price of severing
commercial relations, we are merely
to repeal the war declaration, declare
the war at an end and Invite the pre
sident to negotiate a separate peace."
Mr. Hitchcock cited three similar
resolutions which he said had been
sponsored Bince last November by
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, auth
or of the pending resolution. The
. latter, Mt. Hitchcock said, Is the fifth
peace resolution offered by the re
publican leadership.
"in reaching this important con
clusion," he said of the pending mea
sure, "the supporters of the novel
plan have sTaggered from side to side
over a zig zag course for nearly six
months."
Can't Mako Peace
Senator Hitchcock denied that con
gress has the power to make peace
altho it has authority to declare war.
The states voted unanimously against
giving congress peace making Juris
diction, he Bald. i
Senator Knox's recent argument
that the war actually was at an end
was conceded by Mr. Hitchcock, who
asked:
"Then why this resolution? Hos
tilities ceased eighteen months ago
and our army was reduced to a peace
basis. Since that time commerce has
been resumed. We have sold hun
dreds of millions of dollars -worth of
products to Germany and purchased
much from her. The war which the
senator from Pennsylvania proposes
to end by this resolution does not
by his own admission exist.
"What then is the senator from
Pennsylvania attempting to do by
this measure, which ho calls a resolu
tion to terminate the war He is
making an utterly futile and hopeless
attempt to make a peace settlement
with Germany to take the place of
the Versailles treaty.
Resolution Denounced
"Instead of declaring poace," ho
Bald, "the Knox resolution declares
war at an end. Thus wo have raised
the interesting distinction between
declaring peace and declaring war at
an end."
The resolution adopted by the
house last month was denounced
especially by Mr. Hitchcock because
of Its proposals for an embargo
against Germany within 45 days in
event of German objections to the
resolution and Its provision for re
serving rights under the treaty.
"In the house resolution," he said
"we demand the benefits of the
(Continued on pace Eieht)
EME
T
S;
KETCHIKAN. Alaska. Mav 12. A
special to the Chioi.iclo from Fair
banks says ail communication be
tween Fairbanks nnd Nenana was
suspended at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon.
Forty are reported dead of influ
enza at Xenann, including Herman
Rosbcnr, Rulph Wuechter, Ed Har
bor, Bob Smith, Phil Lannhan, Jack
Forrest, Dominick, one colored man,
one Serbian, sixteen natives nnd M'3.
M. J. Coonev, Lottie Cavanaugh, Mm.
Bennett, Jfrs. Pot Sarroll. Mrs. Bert
BOOZE WAGON WITH
AVTADtn r..i r...f to .
V.l.'lHIW, V ,11., ."HIT J-'
Peter Carbone drove a bit: truck
""loaded with boxed oranges along
the the highway near here to-
dnv. Iln collided with a wnsron
occupied bv a M"exicun fuiuilv
nnd four of them were hurt, but
he drove on; next he struck an
automobile driven bv Charles J.
Haines of Santa Monica, wreck-
ed it. injured lluincs and landed
his own truck in the ditch.
nt'f;ri nt-rf.it(fl Clirhnnc.
Thev hoi-nn to remove the
t' noimrn urntAc SO tllOV COllM
riplit, the truck nnd then tliev
discovered eleven barrels, eon-
laining MO rullons of wine.
under the oranges.
rnrlmnn i'jipnd dliirn-cs nf
driving without lights, reckless
driving, l'tiilintr to halt after in
! i. ti.
i prohibition enforcement statutes.
IN MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY, Via El Pnso Junc
tion, May 9. (Bv the Associated
Press) "A mini on horseback" rode
into Mexico Citv Sunday noon. Gene
ral Alvuro Obregon who fled from
the' capital alone, disguised in n
brakciuan's greasy clothes in the
carlv morning hours before dawn
April 13, returned at the head of seve
ral thousand troops.
From Tucubava, n few miles south
west of Mexico City, the presidential
candidate rode on a prancing bay
stallion through the crowded streets
as fur as the national palace. Halt
ing the procession for a few. moments.
General Obregon mounted to the Iml
conv of n hotel fronting the plaza De
la Reforma and delivered a short
speech, explain'""- the ' ideals that
caused him to force President .Cur
vi'trm to evacuate tho capital.
The appearance of tho Sonoran's
short f.iiure, eor.tless and with face
heavily bearded, and t ho ritrht sleeve
dangling emptv at his side, was tit-.1
sijmnl for cheers. Descending Obre
gon resumed his rido through the
Avenidn Juarez and the Avenidn
Francisco Madero to the center of the
city. The erent Plaza Dc La Consti
tucion, on which face the national
palace and the treat lowers of the
cathedral, was a veritable moving sen
of humanity.
BY UKRAINIANS
PARIS. Mnv 12. Odessa, Russia's
most important outlet on the Mack
sen, has been occupied bv the troops
of General. Pelura, Ukrnnian com
mander, the Ukranian pressi bureau
here declared today.
WARSAW, Mav 11. (Bv the As
sociated Press) The bolshcviki arc
reported to lie digging in nlong the
line east of Kiev and re-organizing
thdir forces. Artillery fighting is
continuing across the Dnieper.
An official statement announces
further Ukrnnian forces in Podolia
the advancing forces alone the Odessa
railroad hnvmg occupied Knninzepo!
CLOSES UP
40 DEAD AT NENANA
Johnson nnd Mrs. Joe O'Connor, tho
dispatch states.
The death list in Fairbanks nam
hers 12. Onlv two new eases were re
ported in Fairbanks Tuesday morn
ing.
Three natives of nn India nvilhiLe
below Chena nrc reported to have
I alien victims to the influenza epi
demic.
The telegraph office at Nenann.
which has been closed on account of
the scourge, was reopened today and
nn accumulation nf business is being
cleared up by a reduced force.
FOREIGN TRADE
salvaiion of
u. s. prosperty
James A. Farrell, President U. S.
Steel Condemns Little Americans
and Political Obstructionists
Foreign Markets Must Be Culti
vated to Absorb Production.
SAX FRANCISCO,. Mav 12. The
world offers vast opportunities l'oi
American enterprise, James A. Far
rell, president of the United States
steel corporation, and chairman ol
the seventh annual National Foreign
Trade convention, told trade exports
from all parts of the world here to
day. His speech, opening a fonr-dav
international discussion of trade, por
trayed conditions in the United States
us leading to either stagnation and
business reverses due to overproduc
tion, or to glowing prosperity follow
ing development of world trade chan
nels. The abnormal dcmntid upon Ameri
can production during the war, he
said, has been projected into the firs!
venrs of peace because of the exhaus
tion of the world's reserve stocks.
"We shall be confronted," he sii'd
"in a quite unmistakable way, with
the fact that we are able to produce
more than wo can sell at home. We
shall face, accordingly, such nn
urgency for foreign trade as we never
before experienced. For, either, we
shall find markets abroad for the sur
plus of our industrial productivity or
we shall cease to produce it, which
is unite unthinkable. That way lies
stagnation, unemployment nnd bust
ness reverses.
"But the world offers vast oppor
tunities for American enterprise.
Needs that have been restricted bv
jealous and discordant political par
ties, material development that has
been checked bv the insistence on
narrow spheres of interest, will he
governed in the future bv bronder nnd
freer conception of international co
operation than has ever prevailed be
fore. '
'There can be no Question about
the economic rebirth of the civilized
world, for it is already in progress.
even in places where industrial dis
tress seems most acute and social
disorganization most profound. Vast
undeveloped portions of the worll
with fertile soil and cheap labor ars
entering upon a period of rapid de
velopment. Thcv will help supply
!hc rapidly increasing needs for
foodstuffs and raw materials nnd
thcv will at the same time furnish
new markets for finished products.
"We may not be able to tell the
or fix the e:
roes that ar
tion of the forces that arc about to
change tho face of the world, but
we mav face the future with confi
denee bv the exorcise of an intelli
gent foresight nnd bv being ready to
adjust ourselves to the now course of
economic development.
"Wo must devote the same sua
tained and intelligent effort to inter
national commerce that has produced
such wonderful resutls in our domes
tis trade.
"The development of our indus
trial productive capacity during I lie
war, coupled with the change in our
national financial status, might.
unintelligcntlv handled, be the fore
runner of distress. But if onlv it
be handled with intelligence, energy
nnd courage, there lies in it a vastly
greater potcnt;ality for general bene
fit through foreign trade.
I
CREW HELD
RESPONSIBLE FOR
PORTLAND. Ore.. May 12. Re
sponsibility for the head-on collision
of the two Southern Pacific electric
passenger trains near here last Sun
day morning in winch nine persons
were killed and 38 others injured, was
placed definitely on all members of
tho crew of the inbound passenger
train in a verdict returned early to
day by Coroner Earl Smith.
The three trainmen held responsi
ble for the tragedy are: D. K. Willett.
engineer, who was killed in the wreck,
Austin I'hnris, conductor, and W. A.
risch. brnkemnn. Pilaris nnd Fisch
are at Good Samaritan hospital as u
result of in juries sustained in the col
lision.
The jury, however, cave the dead
engineer the benefit of tho doubt
when it expressed the belief that Wil
Ictt, just prior to the wreck, had been
rendered mentnllv or physicullv in
capacitated.
WASHINGTON. Mnv T2
(Bv the Associated Press)
Wnllter 1). lliucs. vh(k retires
Saturday as director general of
4 flic rnilrond administration will
leave this month for Europe to
net us arbitrator in determin'ng
the ownership of a number of
vessels under the German flag
operating on the Danube, Kibe,
Rhine and Oder rivers.
Mr. Hines wus npiudutcd bv
President ' Wilson, who win
asked by tho interested nations.
including Belgium, Czci'lio-Slo-
vakia and Rumania to name nn
nrbitruter. Mr. Mines expects
to be away nbout eight months.
4. 1,
FOREST PATROL IN
R 1920
WASHINGTON. Mav 12.-Confer
ees on the agricultural bill todu'
reached an agreement which saves
the appropriation for tho forest air
patrol nt $50,000, a redaction of $10.-
000 under the senate bill. The house
conferees contested any appropria
tion for forest patrol and Senator
McNary, who championed this amend
ment on the senate, side, i'inallv ac
cepted the reduced figures, ' coupled
with a proviso that none of thi
moneys shall be used for purchase of
land or airplanes or the erection of
buildings. The airplanes and aviator;
will be supplied under the army reor
ganization bill and it will be possible
this season to carry out an old- plan
for Northwest patrol, -which includes
bases at Medford, Eugene and La
Grnnde. The conference also agree!
on $125,000 for the protection of
forests under the Weeks' law, an in
crease of $50,000 over the house
figures.
9 MEN,' 31 QUARTS OF
SCOTCH ARE NABBED
TnnTr.Avr n,. r.,o io v;.
men and 31 (marts of genuine Scotch
vvl.iuL,,,. l-il.-,,,, ,,l.wl,. I,,-
the police Into last night nenr one of
ao roruauu municipal terminals, ill"
notice believe thi:t the linnnr ivur.
docked at the terminal. Customs of
ficials do not permit the police to
search trans-Pacific steamers for
contraband liquor. Three of the men
arrested were Japanese. .
FIRST BREAK IN FLOUR
MINNEAPOLIS, May 12. The
first break in the flour market here
since the latter part of February oc
curred today when standard flour de
clined fifty cents a barrel to$15.75.
Since February. 21, when flour sold
for $!.'). 25 n barrel in 08-pound cotton
sacks in carload lots, it has made
steady increases of 25 to 50c n barrel.
A quiet flour market with weaker
wheat prices is responsible for to
day's decreased price.
A mass mooting will be held at the
Liberty school house in the Wellen
district next Saturday noon by the
people of tho Liberty, Black Oak and
Antelope school districts to consider
the question of consolidating the
three districts Into one for economic
and teaching reasons. Road Im
provement matters will also be dis
cussed. A free lunch will be served at noon
to the large gathering expected and
any one interested In schools and
good roads Is Invited to attond. The
political candidate all slicked up and
wearing their most genial manners
are expected to be present In full
force.
CARRANZA IS
HOW FIGHTING
FOR HIS LIFE
Deposed President Witit 4000 Loyal
Soldiers Surrounded bv Rebel
Forces Is Making Last Stand-
General Trevino Rushinq Aid
Cabera Reaches U. S. A.
MEXICO CITV, Mav 10. (Hv th
Associated Press) General Jacinto
Trevino lclt Mexico Citv Sunday night
at 10 o'clock for Anizco in tho state
of Puebhi to save the life of Presi
dent Carranza.
The presidential train was report
ed surrounded lv the forces of Gene
ral KcVcs Muruiicz. Fighting be
tween the troops accompany ng th''
fleeing president and revolutionary
soldiers was reported as having been
raging for some time. According to
reports i-eac'liing here three hundred
Cnrninzistas had already been killed
WASHINGTON. Mav 12. Luis
Cnbi-crn. finance minister in Carran
za 's cabinet, has reached the Unit
ed States, after departing from Mex
ico Citv secretly nnd without notify
ing President Carranza, according to
information received here today hv
radio from Mexio Citv via Sonora.
VERA CRUZ, Mav 11 (Bv the
Assoiatcd Press) President Venus
tinno I'arranza's army of four thous
and men, virtually surrounded by
rebel forces commanded bv Generals
Hill and Trevino, is making a de
termined stand in n strong position
between Sun Marcos, Puebla, and the
vi lingo of Hiimantla, ten miles north
west, in the state of Tolnxenlu, ac
cording to advices received here. The
struggle went on nil day todov and
according to the latest reports the
Carranza forces had not been . is
lodged.
iicbel reinforcements under . com
maud of General Porras . have been
ordered up from Cordoba, and have
taken up positions nt San Andres .uid
t'lialchicnmiila, southeast of the scene
of toduy's battle, proballlv for the
purpose of preventing the cscnpe of
Carranza, should he succeed in break
ng through the lines thrown around
him. Reports state the Carranz.i
forces are entrenched along the
Mexican National railway.
General Can'dido Aguilar, son-in-
law of President Carranza and gov
ernor of the state of Vera Cruz, lias
abandoned nil chance of escape from
the country in an effort lo join his
superior and shnro in his fate, savs
a disputoh to El D ctamen. Emis
saries from General Aguilar today
conferred with General Sanchez's
chief of staff and asked that their
commander be permitted to Pass
through the rebel lines toward Sun
Marcos. This request wict "nited.
but it was stipulated General Agui
lar must .be nccompanied onlv bv hie
general staff and civilians.
Paul II. Foster, Americun consul
here, has reported to the stute de
partment in Washington that oonui-
lions nrc reluming to norninl, thnt
the lives nnd proiiertv of foreigner
have not been molested and that there
is no reason for retaining United
States warships in Moxienn waters,
where thcv tiinv cause friction.
Felix Diaz, leader of n rebel group
in the state of Vera Criiz, has naked
permission to leave the' cotintt
promising he will take no further
part in political movements in Mexico.
It is probable his request will be
granted.
CHICAGO, May 12 Fresh strength
icveloped in tho corn market today,
nnd the highest prices vet this senson
were touched bv the Mnv delivery
Opening quotations which ranged
from quarter cent decline lo five
eight gain w'lh July 1.75'A to $1.70
nnd September. $1.02', to $l.(l.t"i
.erc followed bv material upturns nl!
around nnd then something of a set
back. .
After opening unchanged to half
cent hiuher, including July nt DD-isc
to IMc, oats continued firm.
Provisions burdened a little with
grain nnd hogs.
The condition of Ed O. Brown was
about the same today and ho will be
taken to Portland on the evening
train In charge of Dr. R. J. Conroy
and nurses where an X-Ruy picture of
his fractured Bkull will be taken and
he will be given special treatment.
ViCTIWI BLACK HAND
HAS SUSPENDERS OF
GOLD AND DIAMONDS
CHICAGO, Mav 12. A hhu-k-lmml
pint or a labor war was re
spnnsibli' fur the iminler of
James 'liitr Jim' Colosiino, pro
prietor nf a famous Levee dis
triot eafe, in the main room of
his restaurant yesterday, pli'C
believe.
I'ulife deelared today that
Colorinm's death was voted a
decade iurn bv the Mafia, but for
various reasons the murder was
postponed from time to time.
Colosimo's taste for diamonds
was disclosed when police ex
amined the elothiiiL' he wore at
the time of the murder.
On each tarter elasp was
three diamonds of a carat euch.
His suspender buckles were
adorned witli carat stones flank
ed bv two of a half carat each
while the elastic straps bad been
replaced hv told chains, elosolv
woven, lie wore a riiiir set with
a seven carat stone.
U 1. 10 COAST IN!
WASHINGTON, Mav 12 The gov
ernment nir mail service will cele
brate its second birthday anniversary
Saturday, the operations' of the past
year having been marked with "phe
nomenal success," according to the
postofficc department. Statistics lor
tho entire year show an uverage per
formnnco of 87 per cent, including
i lights under most adverse conditions
Tho service was economical finan
cially, as woll as timesaving, tho de
partment nnnouiiced, $42,000 being
saved on the Washington-New York
routo and $100,000 between New York
and Chicago.
"Until the trans-continental route
is established and service actually be
g;ns from New York to San Fran
cisco ,the Chicago-Omaha roulo will
he merely for the purpose of expediting-
the mail between Chicago and
Omaha. When tho New York-San
Prnnoisco route starts, however, mail
leaving New York Monday morning
will arrive in San Francisco bv 0
o'clock Wednesday morning."
ATTACKED BY MAN
PORTLAND, May 12. Miss Grace
Evans, a nurse at the Portland Sur
gical hospital, reportod to the polled
toduy that alio had beon attacked by
un unknown man as she lay asloop in
a tont on the hospital grounds early
today. The nursa and the man grap
plod, according to the police, but the
asnallant escaped.
PALMER SETS MARGIN
OF PROFIT
BOSTON, Mav 12. Attorney Gen
eral Palmer who has set the margin
of profit to be allowed on sales of
sugar at ono cent u pound for whole
salers nnd two cents a pound nt re
tail, in a telegram to United States
attorney J. M. Hovnton today order
ed that steps be taken immediately
to prosecute persons taking larger
nrnfits.
SALF.M, Ore., Mav 12 registra
tion of voters in Oregon for the pri
murv and special elections to be held
on May 21 total 310,318, according
to figures madu public todnv bv Sam
A. Koxcr, assistant secretary of state.
Of these 228,571 ore classified ns re
publicans uhd 03,105 democrats ni.d
2-1.3-13 miscellaneous. The registra
tions under the bend of miscellan
eous include prohibitionists, socialists
JOHN BULL
HYPNOTIZED
U.S.ADWIIRAL
Confidential Cablegram From Presi
dent to Rear Admiral Sims Pro
duced by Secy. Daniels English
Slowness and Panic of Admiralty
Scored Sims' Reply Placed Blind
Reliance on Might of British Navy
Bliss Scored Sims.
WASHINGTON, Mav 12. A con
fidential cablegram from President
Wilson to liear Admiral Sims in Lon
don, sent during the wur, was road Co
tho senate naval investigating com
mittee todnv by Secretary Daniels.
1 President Wilson's message to Sims
follows: , -.
"From tho beginning of the war,
I have been erently surprised nt the
failure of the British admiralty to
use Grout Britain's great nnvnl su
periority in an effective way. In the
presence of the present submiirice
emergency thcv are helpless to the
point of panic. j
Kverv plan wo suggest they re.jeet
for some reason of prudence. In my
view this is not a time for prudence;
but for boldness, even at the cos$"oi .
great loss. .. . . ,4
"In most of your dispatohefl voii
have quite properly advised us of the
sort of aid and co-operation, deslrojl
from us bv the admiralty. The trouble
is that their plans nnd methods, do
not seem to us efficacious. I would
be very much obliged to vou if ya'
would report to me, confidentially pj
course, .exactly thnt the . admiralty t
has been doing and what tho-v. have
accomplished and, added to the repor
vour own comments and HUggestionji,
based upon independent . thought;. oi
the whole situation, without regard to. ,
the judgments of any one on that side
of the water.- . -. ; ';. 'V
llrltlsh. Too Slow i ; , '
Tho admiralty was very, slow to
adopt tho protection of convoys and
it is pot now, I judge proteotlni Cin
voys on adequate scale within the
danger zone, seeming to keep small
craft w th tho grand fleet. The ub
senco of craft for convoy is 'even
more apparent on the Fl-erioh ooast
than on the English const and in the
channel. I do not soo .how the "neces
sary military supplies and supplies o
food and fuel oil are to be delivered
at British ports in any other way
within the next few. months tilun
under adequate convoy. There will
presently not bo ships or .ti'unkeru
enough nnd our shipbuilding i-'""
mnv not begin to yield important re
sults in loss than eigliteon inontlis. .; .
"1 believe that you will koea these
instructions absolutely and entirely
to yourself und that vou wil (rive Hie
such advice as vou would give if van
were handling and if vou wore run
ning a navv of vour own," ...
Considered ITo-BritlKh , ' '
Mr. Daniels also rend a letter from
Admiral Sims to former Ambassador
Page nt London, written AugUKt 7,
1017, which in part said: . "
"In this connection 1 have a sug
gestion to make. I have received word
practically directly from the president
thnt ho was much displeased with my
reply to his cablegram: that it did
not change his opinion at all; that he
regards me ns owned bv the admiralty
nnd so pro-British thnt he seriously
considered the ndvisubilitv of replac
ing mo bv some other officer."
Admiral Sims' reply to the presi
dent told also of plans for a oom-. .
bincd sen nnd lnnd attack to turn
the German right flank nnd out ptt
Zecbrucge ns a provisioning base, Mr.
Dnniels said. . . . . .
"That was the kind of "bold nnd
audacious' thing the president and
the navy department had been urv-
f Continued on Page Right)
progressives nnd all others than re
publican and democrats, ,
The registration for this year
shows nn increase of about 30,000
over that of two years ago, ' '
County registrations are as' fol
lows: t -County
ttep Demo, Misc..
Douglns 5.00(1 2,70ft , M4
Jackson 0,175 3,232 8S3
Joscphino .....2.387 . 937 . 253
Klamath 3,158 1,310 204